Can I delete Pagefile.sys with causeing issues?

I have a server running SBS 2003 and the C drive is filling up fast. I tracked the huge file to the pagefile.sys its 2,095,104 KB. Can I delete this file with out causing a horriable crash of the server? I ahv attached screen shots for review.Server.doc

You can't delete the page file. It is used to take items out of memory to ree some up for other processes.
If you have another partition you can move the pagefile to this, freeing up space on your C: drive

No, you are unable to delete the pagefile.sys unless you have enough physical memory to replace it.

What you can do instead is reduce the size.

From the server, right-click on "My Computer" and select properties. Select the "Advanced" tab and click on the Settings button in the Performance section. Go to its Advanced tab and click the Change button. Select the Custom Size option and set the initial size to approx 1023 and the max size to 2048. click OK on each opened window. It will need to reboot the system to apply these changes.

Pagefile affects the performance of everything on the server. if you already have Exchange on another partition, no need to move it, but there are many other things that can be moved.
How big is the partition on C:

By the way, your pagefile may be TOO SMALL. Pagefiles should be 1.5X RAM. If that's 1.5x RAM than you barely have 1 GB of RAM in an SBS 2003 server - by today's standards FAR TOO LITTLE physical memory. If you have upgraded the RAM, then you should have INCREASED the size of the page file (and moved it off the C: drive). But as I said, there are potentially 20 things you can do to free up space - see my link - and correct the pagefile settings.

You have a 30 GB C: drive? THAT'S HUGE - TOO BIG in my opinion... You need to read my link and figure out what's taking up the space. There's no good reason to be using 28 GB of space on the C: drive of an SBS server.

Why are you NOT analyzing your disk space? My link references DIRUSE. Have you used it yet? You can get a mostly accurate listing from the other tools I mention but prefer not to use such as TreeSize (and a more recent app I've experimented with, WinDirStat). Have you read through the link yet? If you want to solve your issue, read our comments and recommendations.

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